Patterns of Minority Treatment

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Museum Exhibit

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Theories Explained

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Step 7: Take notes

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Patterns of Minority Treatment

Extermination

Ethnic cleansing: removing a particular group through the use of terror, expulsion, or mass murder.

Concentration camps

Genocide- the destruction of a racial or ethnic group

segregation

De facto segregation is based on informal laws

De Jure segregation is based on laws

policies that separate the minority group from the dominant group.

Legal Protection

Affirmative action is a big example in which to make up for previous imbalances. Critics now call into question reverse discrimination.

civil rights act and voting rights act

Steps to ensure the legal rights of minorities are protected.

Cultural Pluralism

popular example is Switzerland in which there are 3 official languages.

Allows ech group in a society to keep its unique cultural identity

Population Transfer

Example would be the transferring of Native Americans

Can be direct or indirect. Either by making life for minorities so miserable they leave or forcing them to leave

Transferring the minority group from one place to a new territory

Subjugation

Apartheid

Most extreme form is slavery.

constant control over groups through force

Assimilation

mostly occurs voluntarily over time but can be forced resulting in conflict

The blending of culturally distinct groups into one single group is called assimilation.

The term melting pot came from a hope that people would blend into one single culture.

Economic Explanations

the dominant group encourages competition to protect its standing

Prejudice and discrimination arise out of competition for scarce resources.